Mentally Ill Patients

Famous quotes containing the words mentally ill, mentally, ill and/or patients:

“You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

“Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)